Shamir’s new album Heterosexuality is the first in his discography to directly confront his queerness, though that’s not to say he hasn’t already talked about it. “It’s kind of just me yelling from the mountaintops for the first time,” Shamir says. “I’ve been out—nonbinary, queer—and talked about my identity since the beginning of my career. You know what I mean? Especially in my debut, it wasn’t even exclusively about my queerness. People only want to talk about my identity and my queerness, and I would never talk about my music, and I’m just like, ‘Yeah, that’s annoying.’” In that sense, Heterosexuality (a name Shamir says he landed on for the sake of trolling) acts as an exercise of working through trauma, and initially, he had some reservations about putting his queerness thematicall...
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